Boardroom Agenda
Corporate Boards Making Progress on Gender Equality: Thomson Reuters
A new study on gender diversity in the boardroom shows a slow but steady increase in the presence of women on corporate boards over the past five fiscal years, with 64 percent reporting women board ...
CNA Wants 11,000 Former Employees to Give Up Their Pensions
CNA Financial Corp., the commercial insurer majority-owned by Loews Corp., offered lump-sum payments to 11,000 former employees to encourage them to give up their pensions. The program could reduce ...
The Odds Ex-AIG CEO Greenberg Will Win His Bailout Lawsuit are Increasing
Lawyer David Boies has a shot at an upset win in the trial of Maurice "Hank" Greenberg's $25 billion bailout case against the U.S. government, a turnaround from the weak odds he was given just a ...
CEO Pay for Nonbank Financial Services Up More than 30 Percent: BDO
CEO compensation for financial services executives outside of the banking space jumped 31 percent from fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2013, according to the latest report from professional services ...
Fairfax’s Watsa Says Deflation ‘In the Air’
Prem Watsa is betting on U.S. government debt at his Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. to guard against deflation amid stagnation in European economies and slumps in commodity prices and Chinese real ...
Apple CEO Places First Brick on Path for Gay Leaders
Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook on Thursday became the most prominent American corporate leader to come out as gay, saying he was trading his closely guarded privacy for the chance to help move civil rights ...
Chubb Tells SEC It Has No Direct Ties to ‘Adjusters’ in Syria
Chubb Corp. has distanced itself from insurance adjusters in Sudan and Syria after a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry into business in nations blacklisted by the U.S. because of ...
QBE NA Appoints Kronenberg, Former XL Environmental CEO, to Board
QBE North America has appointed William Kronenberg III to its board of directors. With nearly 40 years of experience in the insurance industry, Kronenberg is well suited to assist in enhancing QBE's ...